Anonymous ID: 23f507 Feb. 15, 2020, 6:27 a.m. No.8144557   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>8144534

King, Golden Throne

 

Schiff says Dems will return ‘charlatan’ Trump ‘to the golden throne he came from’

 

“We are a majority in one House, and we will become a majority in the other, and we will send that charlatan in the White House back to the golden throne he came from,” he declared. The House Intelligence Committee Chairman, who is one of the leaders of the impeachment inquiry, warned about the dangers of allowing Trump to continue. He said, “There is nothing more dangerous than an unethical president who believes he is above the law.”

 

Schiff continued, “The most grave threat to the life and health of our democracy comes from within, from a president without ethical compass, without an understanding of or devotion to our Constitution and the beautiful series of checks and balances it established.”

 

https://www.frontpagelive.com/2019/11/17/schiff-says-dems-will-to-return-charlatan-trump-to-the-golden-throne-he-came-from/

Anonymous ID: 23f507 Feb. 15, 2020, 6:44 a.m. No.8144644   🗄️.is 🔗kun

‘The tongue is a fire’: Southern Baptist church fractures over secrets and spiritual abuse

 

CAMP HILL, Pa. – On a Sunday morning in late 2017, Oakwood Baptist Church pastor Donald Foose stood before a congregation that had been blindsided by the sudden departure of their previous head pastor.

 

Foose offered no answers to their lingering questions. Instead, his voice booming through the sparse sanctuary, he preached about the destructive power of gossip.

 

“The tongue is a fire,” Foose declared, reading from the Letter of James. He held up a piece of paper with his own name and the name of the church on it. With his other hand, he struck a match – and lit the paper ablaze.

 

“Look what that little fire did,” he said once the sheet had burned. “It destroyed me. It destroyed the church. It destroyed the unity of the church. And I’m amazed that I didn’t catch the place on fire.”

 

Within six months that sermon would seem like an attempt to smother questions leading straight to Foose’s disturbing past. The details emerged regardless.

 

In 2000, Foose was convicted and jailed for molesting an underage relative. He resigned from his role as principal of a Christian school, and Pennsylvania’s Department of Education stripped him of his teaching license, deeming him “a danger to the health, safety and welfare of students.” Under state law, Foose can’t even drive a school bus, and were he convicted after 2012 he would have been required by law to register as a sex offender.

 

But Foose still became a pastor at Oakwood, then superintendent of the Oakwood Baptist Day School. Church leaders who were aware of his past concealed it from the congregation.

 

The truth – exposed in 2018 after a husband and wife at the church discovered Foose’s record – fractured the tightknit, devout community of roughly 100 members. Pastors resigned, attendance fell, friendships dissolved and faith was tested. In interviews with more than a dozen current and former congregants, a portrait emerged of church leaders compounding Foose’s betrayal by twisting scripture and exploiting the concept of forgiveness to stifle questions about how the situation had been handled.

 

Foose resigned from Oakwood in May 2018. Soon after, the beloved pastor who had left Oakwood months before, Bob Conrad, acknowledged in a five-page letter to his former church that he and other leaders had known Foose could not pass a background check. Foose claimed to have been falsely accused, Conrad wrote, and church leaders took him at his word, failing to prevent him from having access to children even as school employees complained about his overly familiar behavior with the students.

 

“I pray,” Conrad wrote, “that you will find it in your hearts to forgive me for my lack in leadership and judgment.”

 

Foose, 69, did not respond to multiple interview requests for this story. A police investigation would ultimately find no evidence that Foose had harmed children at Oakwood. USA TODAY confirmed that since leaving Oakwood, Foose has preached in at least two other Baptist churches, in Pennsylvania and Virginia, where the congregants were unaware of his 2000 conviction.

 

The revelations at Oakwood occurred as the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest protestant denomination in the country with 15 million members, faced a crisis over sexual abuse that echoes the scandal in the Catholic Church.

 

Read more https://www.yahoo.com/news/tongue-fire-southern-baptist-church-015356093.html

Anonymous ID: 23f507 Feb. 15, 2020, 6:58 a.m. No.8144745   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4769 >>5000 >>5198

Man visited by police at work over 'transphobic' tweet hails High Court victory against force

 

A man visited at work by police over alleged “transphobic” tweets has hailed a ‘watershed moment for liberty” after winning a High Court battle against a force.

 

Former police officer and businessman Harry Miller, 54, who founded the campaign group Fair Cop, said the police’s actions had a “substantial chilling effect” on his right to free speech.

 

Miller, from Lincolnshire, claims an officer who visited his workplace told him that he had not committed a crime, but that his tweeting was being recorded as a “hate incident”.

 

On Friday, the High Court in London ruled Humberside Police unlawfully interfered with his right to freedom of expression.

 

Mr Justice Julian Knowles said: “I find the combination of the police visiting the claimant’s place of work, and their subsequent statements in relation to the possibility of prosecution, were a disproportionate interference with the claimant’s right to freedom of expression because of their potential chilling effect.”

 

The judge added that the effect of the police turning up at Mr Miller’s place of work “because of his political opinions must not be underestimated”.

 

He continued: “To do so would be to undervalue a cardinal democratic freedom. In this country we have never had a Cheka, a Gestapo or a Stasi. We have never lived in an Orwellian society.”

 

Speaking outside the Royal Courts of Justice after the ruling, Miller said: “Mr Justice Knowles was very clear – we have never had a Gestapo or a Stasi in Great Britain.

 

“Well, the actions of Humberside Police came way too close for comfort. This is a watershed moment for liberty: the police were wrong to visit my workplace, wrong to ‘check my thinking’.”

 

Humberside Police said in a statement: “We accept the judge’s decision today and his findings in the judicial review.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/man-transphobic-tweet-legal-court-win-humberside-police-161528193.html

Anonymous ID: 23f507 Feb. 15, 2020, 7:05 a.m. No.8144784   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>8144769

Agree 100%.

The haters attacked Wendy Williams yesterday so bad, she was forced to apologize for simply stating the truth. But that TRUTH is "Offensive" to people with an agenda.

Anonymous ID: 23f507 Feb. 15, 2020, 7:49 a.m. No.8145094   🗄️.is 🔗kun

How China flooded the U.S. with lethal fentanyl, fueling the opioid crisis

 

This is part 2 of Yahoo Finance’s Illegal Tender podcast about the big business behind opioids in the United States. Listen to the series here.

 

Fentanyl in the form of a highly lethal, synthetic opioid that’s been making its way through the U.S. over the last decade. The largest source of this illicit drug is China.

 

Ben Westhoff, an investigative journalist and author of “Fentanyl Inc.: How Rogue Chemists are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic,” decided to see firsthand how these drugs are being made.

 

“I went really deep and tried to learn everything I could about this problem, and that brought me to China,” he said. “I actually went undercover into a pair of Chinese drug operations, including, I went into a fentanyl lab outside Shanghai. And I was pretending to be a drug dealer.”

 

He continued: “What I learned was that these companies making fentanyl and other dangerous drugs are subsidized by the government. And so when they work in these suburban office parks, for example, the building, the costs for research and development, they have these development zones, they get export tax breaks.”

 

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/chinas-role-in-the-us-fentanyl-epidemic-152338423.html